Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs
September/October 2012
Foreign Affairs
According to Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson's Why Nations Fail, economic development hinges on a country's political institutions. But their monocausal analysis ignores other important factors (such as geography) that can also affect growth.
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